Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
“Ceremony” by Kelly Sievers
Kelly Sievers, CRNA CEREMONY Crouched with balanced ease on sturdy legs Mya pulls white socks from my father’s feet. Twisted toes-riding-toes loom, nails thick, long, and yellow as bad [...]
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
“Dad’s Report of a Tornado…” by Judy Schaefer
Judy Schaefer, RNC, MA DAD’S REPORT OF A TORNADO IN MISSOURI WHEN HE WAS A BOY I found a fence post and clung to it, held it Called it “mama,” called it “my sweet Lord” I found a way to pray, to beg to live on I found the wind in the pockets of my [...]
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
“The Sea Turtle” by Mary H. Palmer
Mary H. Palmer, RN, C, PhD THE SEA TURTLE Shoulder-deep in the sea turtle’s nest, I search for remains, nothing alive. The tiny turtles would have climbed over each other, forming a living ladder out of their sandy birth canal leaving only the unhatched and dead behind. Mongoose would have gotten any stragglers. I am [...]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
SO WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN TIME OR by Sawako Nakayasu
Review by C. St. Pérez SO WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN TIME OR by Sawako Nakayasu Verse Press/Wave Books 1938 Fairview Avenue East Suite 201 Seattle, WA 98102 ISBN: 0-9746353-0-8 2004, 106pp., $13.00 www.wavepoetry.com Antonin Artaud, in “The Theater of Cruelty,” urges to “abolish the stage and the auditorium and replace them by a single site, [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
“Nursing Internship, LA County, 1990″ by Tracy Klein
Tracy Klein, RN, MS, FNP NURSING INTERNSHIP, LA COUNTY, 1990 As the cancer patients died you smoked Another cigarette down by the dormitory pool, arm Dangling in the airless heat. A big Pink swimsuit wrapped you like a blanket. We’d wrestled the pool from the medical students For the afternoon, as they studied up on [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
“Schoolgirls” by James Doyle
James Doyle SCHOOLGIRLS Schoolgirls in black skirts and white blouses water flowers that bloom only in the night. One of the girls wears a laurel crown, another has a thin scar down her leg and around her ankle. The teacher, at the far corner of the field, sands the ancient clapper which will call them [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Two Poems by Damien Echols
Damien Echols FIRST LOVE In those days you were something felt but not seen as you handed me love letters written in dead languages. The chain link fence behind me made cold diamonds on my back and your head was on my shoulder with only one breath between us. Your hair against my face smelled [...]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
“A Poet Is Supposed to…” by Alan Fox
Alan Fox A POET IS SUPPOSED TO LIVE HIS LIFE OUT LOUD I know there are certain truths I shouldn’t tell you, and certain lies I should. I shouldn’t tell you that my wife and I made love last night while waiting in line for a fast food feast. I should tell you that you’re [...]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
MY FLORIDA by Kathleen Tyler
Review by Karen J. Weyant MY FLORIDA by Kathleen Tyler The Backwaters Press 3502 North 52nd Street Omaha, Nebraska 68104-3506 ISBN: 978-0-9793934-6-4 70 pp., $16 www.thebackwaterspress.com Palm trees swaying on sandy shorelines. Couples walking hand-in-hand into sunsets. College students going wild on spring break. Certainly, these images of Florida are often the first pictures that [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
“Singularity” by Daniel Stewart
Daniel Stewart SINGULARITY Fired from God’s .45 she tore a hole in me black as a crow’s wing. She found the universe dull as a sitcom, the laughtrack louder with the voices of the dead than October rain’s gallop across the roof, and so collapsed. She languished, lilac, leopard; I prayed to prowl with her, [...]
